Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a pest.

Lewis, Joe E.

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I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

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These can never be true friends: Hope, dice, a prostitute, a robber, a cheat, a goldsmith, a monkey, a doctor, a distiller.

Proverb, Indian

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

Kempis, Thomas

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Weldon, Fay

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

Camus, Albert

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

Thackeray, William M.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend walks in when everyone else walks out

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Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.

Cummins, Anna

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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

Brown, John Mason

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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it.

Holz, Julie

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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And the joy of it all; when we count it all up; is found in the making of friends.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It's funny, isn't it? How your best friend can just blow up like that?

Python, Monty

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Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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You can't eat your friends and have them too.

Schulberg, Budd

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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Fairbanks, Douglas

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

Franklin, Benjamin